Evaluation

For my project I wanted to create an animation that could let people reach into their childhood memories and familiarize themselves with their sibling scraps, the features of this animation were two young children often fighting about trivial things like who is not brushing their teeth when they are suppose to and who has had the TV remote for too long. I didn't really research much into what people would like in this animation because I had a pretty solid idea, but I did struggle in the first part of production, i.e, how will I start this animation, technique; Will I use Rotoscoping? will I do this free-hand?
After getting the story board drawn and the character designs set I then figured out how I would nail this project, but first I needed a title for this animation, through talking to people about this project and the matter of naming it I compiled a list of names into a Questionnaire poll asking people to vote on their favorite title for the brief, the name "Double Trouble" won, so that was the name that I had stuck with.

The timing for this project was rather late in the making by this point because no one was voting so I reached to desperate measures by sending the link to every possible person I knew and even didn't know and also included it on my blog, here people could watch both project briefs and the planning to know precisely what title they would like for this animation.

I started drawing my animation frame by frame for many many hours, often staying up all night to get as much done, once I had gotten so far into the animations, I decided that it should all be free hand. I did find some image references for back grounds,i.e, Sofa's, kitchens and living rooms.

When it came to experimenting for my animation I did not really need to do much apart from exploring different styles, in my blog, previously I experimented with doing a Photoshop sketchy sort of style but felt it would be too colorful as I wanted this animation to be limited to the few shades of Brown, the reason I wanted to do this is I wanted my animation to come across as some what "dated" but not in black and white.
I also experimented with movements both motion and style, Firstly I created a Rotoscope animation of a puppet moving around, I was very minimal with the line work and wanted it to be flickery and it proved to work well but not detailed enough for people to understand what is happening in the video if it was a story.
Secondly I experimented with another style and that was the Pop-art movement, I made a very colorful GIF of some ballet feet moving around and multiple colors happening around it I liked this but it was not right for the video I was aiming for, though pop art is a good and fashionable movement in the arts I still preferred the minimalism in my idea, finally the last experiment I did was a style inspired by the Ryan Woodward piece and this was a GIF of a man walking but he was creating some motion tracks behind him, I very much liked this idea because it was quite whimsical and I very much liked the idea of seeing movement subtly, though I didn't get the movement exactly like the artists, I am proud of what I had created on it's own and stuck by this idea.